There Are Only Six Books Written By Men
What I suggest instead, is that the rest of us just leave them to their white dude books and stop reading them. There are only six stories contained in all of them together anyway. Trust me, as a Ph.D. who had to read hundreds of books to win that useless string of letters, and then also just read hundreds more because I like to be holding something while I’m ignoring people, if you’ve read these six, then you have read them all:
My Beautiful Wife is Mentally Fragile, and I Drink Too Much by Men
That War Certainly Contained Elements of the Grimly Absurd by Men
It Was Hot in That Uncivilized Place, and the Weather is a Metaphor by Men
That War Certainly Taught Us Some Absolutely Universal for Everyone Things That Are Heartbreaking by Men
This Class System Is Oppressive Specifically and Only to Me, and I Drink Too Much by Men
I Would Very Much Like to Have Sex With Someone Who Does Not Want to Have Sex With Me, Causing Me, a Character Who Is a Middle-Aged Writer, to Think About Other Reasons I am Unhappy by Men
She will defend herself by saying she was just joking. I’m sure she’ll find this funny, then.
I Am Fat But My Protagonist Is Not: A Mary Sue Adventure by Women
Gossip and Shoes or Shoes and Gossip: I Recycle A Jane Austen Plot by Women
The Girl I Hated In High School Is Murdered In The First Chapter by Women
My Period: A Love Story by Women (Also published under the title: Daddy Issues)
My Boyfriend’s Gay And So Is Everyone In All These Fairy Tales by Women
The Only Interesting People Are Lesbians by Women
I’d be fine if women stopped reading books by men, commenting on books by men, constantly denigrating books by men, and stick to their segregated aisles of the book store. You won. You. Won. Now put away your sneer and fuck the fuck off.
DeSantis’ anti-riot law didn’t apply as Cuba protesters shut down a Miami-Dade road. Hmmm . . .
Gov. DeSantis should have just laid it on the line when a reporter asked about the scores of Cuban-American demonstrators and their supporters who shut down a portion of the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade County.
Instead, he deflected, talking about protesters in Cuba.
Implicit in the question, however, was whether the governor’s vaunted anti-riot law — created in the wake of George Floyd demonstrations — would apply in the case of the demonstrators blocking streets and an expressway in Miami-Dade.
Their cause is righteous, of course — bringing down Cuba’s oppressive and regressive regime.
Florida’s misbegotten anti-riot law leaves even peaceful demonstrators subject to being arrested if a protest is arbitrarily deemed a “riot.” The law explicitly makes blocking a highway a felony offense. Worse, it gives civil legal immunity to people who drive through protesters who are blocking a road — basically, encouraging haters to do just that.
So, you are mad that a Governor you hate didn’t use a law you don’t like against a minority population that politically supports him and votes in high percentage?
Their cause is righteous, of course — bringing down Cuba’s oppressive and regressive regime.
Nice of you to concede that. Probably hurt, though.
Flight From Hell: Passengers Land In Stockton 17 Hours After Taking Off From Las Vegas
STOCKTON (CBS13) – For passengers on Allegiant Airlines flight 161, an hour-long flight turned into a 17-hour journey.
“It was absolutely horrible,” said Jade Watts, who was flying from Vegas to Stockton.
The flight was scheduled to arrive at Stockton Metropolitan Airport on Monday night at 9:30 p.m. They got in on Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Here’s what happened.
“The pilot comes on and says the control tower is closed,” said Watts.
The pilot couldn’t get ahold of anybody on the ground in Stockton.
“And they can’t land without a weather report,” she said.
So, the flight headed back to Las Vegas.
“He comes back on again and says there’s a thunderstorm in Vegas and zero visibility,” said Watts.
And what’s worse?
“They were concerned about gas so we have to go to the closest airport. Where are we going to freaking land?” she said.
Roughly 175 passengers were dropped off at LAX, eventually allowed to get off the plane.
Wow. 17 hours from Vegas to Stockton.
BTW, proper firsting actually includes mentioning the article.
You can drive it less than 8. Still kinda shitty, I’ve done it twice.
Getting off the plane in Stockton is the bigger hell.
I was about to say.
#metoo
Yeah, and that airport is in the shitty part of Stockton.
Contemplate that on the tree of woe.
There’s a nice part?
This one is on the pilot and the airline. The airline had them arriving after the tower closes at Stockton, but Oakland Center was most likely in control of that airspace. The pilot (or passagners rather) said they couldn’t get a weather report so they decided to turn back. Why Las Vegas was the alternative to that flight is probably again, the airline. Vegas has been getting T-Storms nightly for almost a week now and yes, Monday night was pretty bad at the airport.
This from Allegiant
“According to Allegiant Airlines, a visibility sensor that is a part of the airport’s weather reporting system and OKs planes to land went out and the Stockton control tower was closed, forcing the pilot to keep the plane in the air.”
I’ll dig into the logs of that airport and see what was actually out, but sounds like the pilot just didn’t trust his VFR flying skills and his IFR flying skills. Couple that with Allegiant is known to not fly certain routes unless all equipment is up and running.
The pilot at this point after going back to Vegas should have gone into a holding pattern because our storms last no more than 20 minutes and he could have landed in Vegas. Instead, chooses to go to LAX as his next alternative. What a damn nightmare.
That would have never happened with modern bullet trains like every other civilized country has.
40 miles to Vegas is when you start praying
Here is what the dumbass pilot did
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY161/history/20210713/0303Z/KLAS/KLAX
OMG he drew a swastika!!!
That was a long trip from the prostate. Looks like they started in Las Anus.
Heh. He was trying to draw a penis indeed!
Pssh… He has nothing on the master.
I thought that was going to be a link to the Suez captain’s route.
The Navy says hi
I remember that. They should have given him a medal and a tryout for the Blue Angels for raising morale and some fine precision flying rather than writing him up.
What’s that crazy route on the way there? Was he avoiding weather?
Probably. He took the the RADYR to HEC route because the airline probably already forecasted the developing weather storms to the NW of Vegas at 9pm.
He was taking the freeway. The 15 to Barstow and then catch the 5 out of Bakersfield.
IFR navigation… I follow road.
It is. Which to me means the airline already knew of developing storms and they sent him back to Vegas anyway.
That’s the title of a Man Book™
Nice…
In HS, I took a bus from Southern California to Saint Louis, and I have taken an Alligiant flight from Louisville KY to Las Vegas.
I would happily take the bus before the other.
You need to be introduced to Spirit Airlines. You would prefer to take the NYC subway for the entire trip.
Spirit is great for a 45-minute flight that costs you 15 bucks. Anything longer ya, I would rather use my son’s old tricycle to get there.
I Am Fat
But My Protagonist Is Not: A Mary Sue AdventurebyWomenevery chick trying to get a Ph.D. in the humanities.Follow-up:
The Only Interesting People Are Lesbians by Women
When’s the last time a lesbian did something remotely interesting? Obvious exception for the “lesbians” on the internet who keep teenage boys fapscinated for minutes on end.
“fapscinated” for the win
“minutes on end”? Well, maybe for their second lap around YouPorn.
When a 50-year-old Navratilova won a major. Okay, it was mixed doubles… but still.
What does Martina and tennis have in common?
A: Fuzzy balls
*Bad joke from the ’70’s
Another joke from that era:
“She just got an endorsement contract for Snap-On Tools.”
Ever read Rene Richards’s autobiography?
“Tennis Without Balls.”
Martina is a badass who is not down with any of the current craziness.
She gave a faux-pology and later took it back.
Bad-ass indeed.
That womans soccer player with pink hair said the girls deserve the same pay as the men. That was interestingly stupid i guess.
To be fair, they are way more successful than the men’s team, but …
Have them exchange competitors and see what the records look like.
They should get equal pay to the U-15 boys squads they fail to beat.
Not more successful at what matters, at least for purpose of getting paid:
Making money.
Hence the ‘but … ‘
When’s the last time a lesbian did something remotely interesting?
I had a good bud in my first and only year of Law School who was a butch lesbian and had her head screwed on surprisingly straight for someone going through legal training (most of them, and I’m including myself here, were more like “lost souls” who were there either to Save The World From The Man or to Make Stonkin’ Huge Amounts Of Money — or because they couldn’t think of anything better to do [that was really me]).
She went on to clerk for the Supreme Court of Canada and then became a family lawyer, specializing in representing men who were getting royally screwed over by their soon-to-be ex-wives. She won a lot of cases, to the point where she became kinda hated by the half-dozen or so female lawyers in the Edmonton region who were locally infamous for being on the other side of said cases much of the time. Her key to success? The 6 P’s: Proper Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
No idea what she’s doing now.
Ellen DeGeneres cratered her career by being a horrible bitch behind the scenes?
(most of them, and I’m including myself here, were more like “lost souls” who were there either to Save The World From The Man or to Make Stonkin’ Huge Amounts Of Money — or because they couldn’t think of anything better to do [that was really me])
I spent a couple years on a law school forum dissuadung people like that from going to law school.
I don’t know how many times I had to write “no, you’re not going to be making 6-figures graduating from [insert no-name law school here]”
I also don’t know how many times I had to write “you should really think twice about your plan to pay sticker at [insert middling law school here] and relying on your ability to hold down a public service position for a decade to qualify for loan forgiveness.”
Of course, those two groups were the most likely to be recalcitrant. They were also most likely to come back a few years later contemplating suicide after failing the bar for the third time.
I think that one is by Womyn.
Mrs. Animal, as an editor and publisher, approves of this message.
So, you are mad that a Governor you hate didn’t use a law you don’t like against a minority population that politically supports him and votes in high percentage?
I’m conflicted. If the law cannot be applied equally to disfavored and favored groups it’s a bad law. I guess most laws are bad laws. Whatever, as long as it makes everyone mad, I’m cool.
All they had to do was get the cops to be reasonable and convince them to wave their signs on the shoulder of the road and stop blocking it. I could do that in less than a minute.
Sure, and all these people, in a whipped up emotional state, would calmly listen to you and stop what they were doing…
No, I will not pull the other finger…I don’t believe it plays “Jingle Bells”
You might be surprised.
It isn’t really a finger?
Maybe it plays “Carol of the Bells”?
The law has also never been used against BLM or Antifa protestors either, so it starts to seem like the real complaint is that DeSantis didn’t brutalize a bunch of Cubans when he had the chance.
They only wanted DeSantis to brutalize a bunch of Cubans so they could go “Hey look! DeSantis is brutalizing a bunch of Cubans!” Missing out on a sure slam-dunk like that will make any partisan hack salty.
Yep. This is politics.
As it is, the Democrats have guaranteed that they will lose Florida next round.
Has BLM or antifa blocked a highway in FL since the law was passed? I genuinely don’t know.
I don’t think so. Which means the law is working!
I’m unhappy that this law is not being applied to politically favored groups. Of course, its not really the Gov’s job to micromanage the local cops and the AG. Still, its a bad look. Pretty much the exact mirror image of the Soros DAs letting antifa walk.
” Pretty much the exact mirror image of the Soros DAs letting antifa walk.”
I wouldn’t go that far.
If they let a righty demonstration that broke the law go undisturbed because “we approve of this message”, I think its pretty much in line with what the Soros DAs do with BLM/antifa “protests”.
Which is a narrower than my first comment, true.
Blocking traffic is bad, but not as bad as arson, assault, destruction of property, looting, etc.
Seems like closing down roads and making people get stuck in traffic would be counterproductive but what do I know? If I had to sit behind the wheel for a couple of hours unnecessarily I’d be pretty pissed regardless of what they were advocating.
“Trust me, as a Ph.D. …”
I stopped reading right there.
I see the puppet, president sippy cup, is working on removing sanctions on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela etc. In other words, anyone that hates the US we are going to cozy up to and anyone that is our ally we are going to shit on. Could the radical left be more obvious?
The control tower was closed because….?
It isn’t a 24 hour tower. Allegiant knows that and the pilot knows that. At that time, Oakland Center would have been controlling them.
Uh….we have an airport here that is the size of a postage stamp for small aircraft and you can radio them any time, night or day.
Right some maintain unicoms, but municipals that close towers will hand off to a large tracon or center and flights land them all the time. Maybe tripacer or db will step in here.
I want to follow this because A: they are blaming equipment that I maintain (not in Stockton, but my peers do that work up there) and B: I think this pilot is not fit to fly given both airport conditions. See above to Spud. He could have circled here in Vegas for 15 minutes and landed. He could have requested SFO as an alternate or SAC as one. Instead he flew all the way back to Vegas…panics…then flys to LAX.
That is where the airport and airline really screwed the passengers over by keeping them in a holding room for so long.
Does Allegiant fly to SFO or SAC? If they don’t have ground crew there to support rebooking & passenger assistance, that may account for the airport choices.
Both. db would be able to step in here, but usually with a filed flight plan is an alternative. LAS must have been their alternative.
All of these things are deeply wound up in an Airlines SOPs… these are whole sets of rules for part 135 and part 121 carriers that we just don’t have the data on. Many limitations that are beyond the standard FAR’s. Certain airports can require specific training.. only certain planes etc…
so, the FAA mandates a maze of rules..
the weather on the day at Stockton was:
https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KSCK.html
CAVU VFR.
The ASOS was down?.. (haven’t looked, but Ownbetenemy implied it).
So, the classic method to comply with the SOP pre ASOS and the tower closed was to have a “trained” weather observer on staff, and you would call them on the company radio and ask what the weather was,.
And why so long? Well the pilot can’t use his emergency authorization until minimum fuel is reached.. so this was the first leg of a long journey. if it was the last leg, he could have diverted to Fresno, or just landed at SAC depending on the SOPs.
I won’t let the FAA completely off for putting in an extremely restrictive system that keeps people in the air when the safest place for them that particular day (given the totality of the circs) was on the ground in SAC. There are corner cases in the FAR’s that the legal team has said.. “following the actual text would give an absurd result, therefore the reasonable answer is correct”.
Alternatives in a flight plan are for planning and fueling requirements. not tactical, but I will bet that crew only had a list of X airports on their roster unless it was an emergency.
Thanks Mossy.
Past 96-hours
https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=KSCK&format=raw&hours=96&taf=off&layout=on
NOTAMs for the day prior through Tues show nothing.
My internal view of FAA equipment status shows the “NWS ASOS reporting visibility missing” 7/13 0527z which lines up with that flight. That would have been Monday at 10:30pm PST.
However, that is most likely from the PIREP. ASOS has a ceilometer but I don’t see anything indicating needing it for that night for that flight.
I’d like to think an airline would be on the ball enough to, I dunno, call ahead or look at a schedule or something before launching planes into the air bound for another location. Hell, I check restaurant hours before going to them.
They can land at an unmanned tower. This pilot is claiming that some equipment was out at Stockton…decided not to land (which is his duty, but I still think he is shitty), and chose to come back to Vegas, his alternative airport provided by the airline.
Appeals to credentialism are appeals to the worst qualities of human nature and as a psych major I feel confident in my assertion.
She admits they are useless, but trust her anyway.
“I see the puppet, president sippy cup, is working on removing sanctions on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela etc.”
Everything my political enemies does is wrong, therefore, if I do the opposite, it will be awesome. That seems to be the theme of the Biden administration.
I’m fine with it.
Sanctions are dumb.
I don’t disagree. My point is how revealing it is about their sentiments.
Remove sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela and then impose them on Georgia, Texas and Florida.
I’ve read all the six books written by Men. My exposure to the books written by Women was much more limited.
I won’t be satisfied until women authors start finishing their careers properly like Ernest Hemingway.
Under-appreciated comment right here. Bravo.
Jezebel comment:
Two memories this stirred in me:
The first:
When I was on OKCupid my “you should message me if” section asserted “you have read 1] 20 books 2] by woman 3] besides Ayn Rand.” Probably 80% of my responses were “does JK Rowling count? 😉 🙂 ;)”
“No,” bar none, resulted in a mighty uproar. “Stop moving the goalposts” was my favorite, deeply metaphorical response.
How could you resist messaging that?
I mean, I have, I pass that test, but I don’t put out for fatties.
I dunno, man. I have to give her some credit for disparaging JK Rowling…
Rowling only got unpersoned as a female literary figure because she got off the transgender train. But a point’s a point.
But it’s probably only because Rowling has been labeled a TERF and shunned by the righthinking.
If you did want to, just bring up The Awakening and you are in.
I assume I pass the test too, but I don’t keep a mental scorecard of “male” vs. “female” authors.
dittoes
While we’re at it I think “Do you read Jezebel?” would be an excellent way to weed out any potential mates (male or female).
What’s deeply metaphorical about “Stop moving the goalposts”?
And, yes, them moved the goalposts. J. K. Rowling being a woman who wrote books, and all.
A better question would have been “Do cookbooks count?”
Does furry porn count?
CWAA
“…besides Ayn Rand.”
Ah, so anyone who is not a commie does’nt count.
Rand only lived through a commie revolution, what does she know?
My Life with Cats by A Woman
This made me laugh.
Bet those guys were devastated to miss out on that opportunity.
“My Boyfriend’s Gay And So Is Everyone In All These Fairy Tales by Women”
So you read Twilight?
I thought Twilight was I Am Fat But My Protagonist Is Not
The need for basic white chicks to feel a little less basic was an untapped market, before Stephanie Meyers exploited it with all the ruthlessness of an antebellum plantation owner.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game…
Day-um…
I would say there are a lot of things untapped in that market.
Zing!
Obviously Twilight was a cross-over series.
I’m sure I’m going to sound like a terrible misogynist here, but isn’t it possible that men have experiences (and therefore worthwhile reading material) that is inherently more dramatic? I mean two of her suggested male titles invoke war, a situation where you have a significantly enhanced probability of someone shooting you. I’d suggest, yeah, that’s probably a little more dramatic than navel-gazing in your mid-40s about how unfulfilled your life is because you weren’t the prom queen.
That’s not just misogynistic. It’s probably racist too.
“I’m sure she’ll find this funny, then.”
Heh. Also, you’re in before The Bee.
(But “aisles” not “isles.”)
Fucking autocorrect. Grumble.
If only someone taking over expanded editorial duties had proofread the Afternoon links I posted an hour ago…
*ahem*
Who is Astrid?
She’s not ready to be Astra until her hair grows back. If you were a REAL fan, you’d know that from the Expanded Expanded Universe Fanwiki.
I see.
OMG you can’t deadname Astrid like that!
I can’t keep up with these ever changing rules.
Ouch!
This is how things happen around here, folks. You volunteers and the first you hear back is how you should have already ordered up the next month’s supply of Letraset Sheets in Horripilation Extra Bold.
Fight for Fifteen – the struggle continues.
https://notthebee.com/article/taco-bell-employees-shot-fireworks-inside-the-restaurant-locked-themselves-out-and-set-the-building-on-fire
“We know the numbers don’t work but what we are trying to do is too important for us to be held back by math.”
/Bernie Sanders supporter 2008
Felony Aggravated Arson?
Yum! Brands don’t fuck around, meng…
I’d be fine if women stopped reading books by men, commenting on books by men, constantly denigrating books by men, and stick to their segregated isles of the book store. You won. You. Won. Now put away your sneer and fuck the fuck off.
I just tell anyone who doesn’t like my books to go and read someone else’s.
What’s that they say? They haven’t read a book in, like, ages?
No shit.
”What I suggest instead, is that the rest of us just leave them to their white dude books and stop reading them.”
This is only a threat if any of you actually read in the first place. Buying the book, displaying it proudly on your coffee table for a few weeks, then Googling a synopsis for your book club doesn’t count…
Wait a minute, a lede was buried here. Jezebel is suggesting that white dudes should be left alone?
May I present who is going to inherit Noam Chomsky’s soul when he dies:
Keith Olbermann –
Weird: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep
Yep it is clear why keep and not own was utilized. That is what he doesn’t like. Fuck him.
Oh, so now Olbermann is a strict textualist.
Ask yourself, Keith: why doesn’t the Constitution have the word “abortion” in it?
Also, I think he knows this, but the Constitution doesn’t authorize us anything, it authorizes what the government can and cannot do…but hey, I am just an undereducated nobody.
I think he knows this
I seriously doubt that. He strikes me as the sort who believes the Constitution graciously allows us to do the things in the BOR.
Keep flapping your gums Keith, you still cant have my guns.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9786799/Demi-Rose-showcases-famous-curves-figure-hugging-crop-skirt.html
Nope. Kind eyes.
“Jen Psaki asks popstar Olivia Rodrigo, 18, to brief the press on COVID vaccines: TikTok sensation takes the White House podium in huge heels and a pink plaid suit to gush about Biden and Fauci and tell kids to get the shot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9788429/Olivia-Rodrigo-arrives-White-House-pink-plaid-meeting-President-Biden.html
Ridiculous.
This is what happens when you let children run optics.
Still don’t understand why kids should get the shot at all.
Birth defects, sterility, long term health problems. Who better to experiment on?
Those pix were definitely taken before she got traumatized by a thorough hair sniffing. No way that hair didn’t get sniffed.
Classy outfit with hooker shoes.
As far as I’m concerned, Sinema did it better.
Dogdamn, the shit we have in Congress. Is it not obvious the people who are the most attended to are owned property of the wealthy elite? She should be in a mommy/daughter porn with AOC and Ellison.
I like the mega-Sinema and mini-Sinema on the right side of that, except it looks like mega-Sinema is about to grab and eat her mini-twin.
She must’ve just come from fly fishing in the Potomac.
damnit.
I believe the correct term is “poptart”, not “popstar”.
If there is anyone I would listen to about complex scientific subjects it is an 18 year old in a skirt and porn shoes. Yep.
This administration is a complete clown show.
Honk Honk!
It’s a tyrannical clown show.
The clown being John Wayne Gacy.
Why run out this twit when they could have DOCTOR Jill Biden give the authoritative message?
Cause, like, I LOVE DOCTOR Biden, but she is old. I think she might be, like, a boomer. We need, you know, someone pretty and knows what it is like, you know, like to be us!
/add unnecessary voice inflections as needed
She’s kinda cute though. I’d sniff her hair.
Which ones?
Huh, porn star shoes.
Thank God we have serious leadership again.
Someone must’ve told Olivia that Psaki is about 4 feet tall, and she wanted to make sure she cleared that.
“White House REFUSES to condemn communism and insists protests were sparked by ‘government mismanagement'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9789083/Marco-Rubio-warns-horrific-bloodbath-Cuba-Biden-doesnt-act.html
What does it matter. Politicians are only doing what is allowed of themselves to do and gaslighting has been accepted because we are only now feeding 1/2 the country the lines they want to hear at a time.
Communism is another word for the things we mismanage together!
Communism is pretty much government mismanagement by definition.
“insists protests were sparked by ‘government mismanagement'”
also known as “bad luck”:
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
― Robert Heinlein
Sebelius: Unvaccinated Americans Should Not Be Allowed to Work, Have Access to Children
Seems we are arriving at a boiling point. I hope not, but sure seems like it.
Also this bullshit line “You may not have access to a situation where you’re going to put my grandchildren in jeopardy. Where you might kill them, or you might put them in a situation where they’re going to carry the virus to someone in a high-risk position.”
Let’s run right to it, cuz a 3.5 year slow burn is gonna be pure hell.
No, I want the three-year burn. There are way too many people who will excuse this shit, and we need the time to let the whole thing marinade, let the flavors really seep in.
I’m going to need to fortify my liver if it goes the distance.
Presumably, she does not allow her grandchildren to go swimming, because a lot more kids die from drowning every year than have been killed by the ‘Vid.
Go ahead and escalate the situation with wildly inflammatory language. See what happens.
So take it off.
So live your life.
They can’t really infect anyone who has been vaccinated. So what are you worried about?
It’s almost like they don’t believe their own bullshit. And they’re probably right not to.
Wildly effective vaccine? I know two people who have been vacced and still came down with the cooties. They recovered well because the bug has essentially burned itself out, but they still caught it.
These people are so full of shit.
So wildly effective that you need to continue wearing a mask and separate and only wear it standing up and walking and on and on. Yep they are neck deep in their bullshit that you’d think they could smell it.
Wildly effective vaccine? What happened here?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/14/covid-outbreak-aboard-hms-queen-elizabeth-strikes-100-sailors/
Also, Sebelius, you died long ago and your music sucks.
CWAF
Lady…you can’t even make a website work.
It would be best if she stayed away from me. For many reasons.
I accept the Sebelius challenge. No vaccine so no work and will not put your grandchildren in jeopardy. I also promise not to infect anyone. Those that know me know I’m too cheap to give anything away.
I’m expecting the next Dem ploy will be no vax no welfare check, whitey.
Australian state Victoria ponders 6th lockdown.
LIBERTARIAN MOMENT
Does it have all the same shit as my fascist phone?
Guess I choose fascism. Dammit.
Hard to say, it’s so private they don’t even post specs.
Odds that the NSA has already compromised it?
The Girl I Hated In High School Is Murdered In The First Chapter by Women
I think I saw the movie.
I guess Ralph Ellison really is invisible. To that racist bitch at least.
Howdy. It’s been a while.
Got my first welding job today. Also dug up a big dinosaur bone during my trip out west last month. The paleontologist who examined it said it’s probably the metatarsal of a Camarasaurus and will likely be in a museum someday. The bone was tagged BS 1990. BS stands for “beside sauropod” and is the name of the fossil quarry and the 1990 means it was the 1,990th find of significance at that site. It was a great feeling to achieve a childhood dream.
So yeah, life is good. 2 satire ideas I had recently:
***
Experts Say Tanks in Tienanmen Square May Be Chinese
…
Fauci Urges Vaccination, Masks, and Social Distancing for Corpses
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Probably won’t be around here much aside from my weekly-ish satire post. Any ideas or topics are welcome.
So good to hear from you again! Mazel tov on the new job, and looking forward to more of your posts! ?
Also dug up a big dinosaur bone during my trip out west last month
Awesome.
Well, that’s just cool.
“dug up a big dinosaur bone”
These euphemisms!
Srsly – Welcome back, Derpy! We’ve missed you. Hope your life is better. Nice find.
It is always good to see you around Derp. Pop in more often brother.
Fauci Urges Vaccination, Masks, and Social Distancing for Corpses
That’s not funny, man!
Actually it is, unless it’s true. Which is totally possible these days. Would also add “Weight-Loss Program” because it’s easily achievable.
Weclome back. Congrats on being a taxabull.
Great to see you, Derp. That dino bone – that’s cool as hell. I still love dinosaurs as much as I did as a little tad and generally read everything I can find on that topic.
Paleontologists say that dinosaur knowledge peaks at age 4 and again when you become the parent of a 4 year old.
Dramatic Paleontology Music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQm2_VPT55s
Things I learned from being a paleontologist for 1 day:
1. It’s more about scraping and brushing than digging. I used a tool the guide called an oyster knife to pry apart layers of mud stone, which is a lot softer than the fossils it contains.
2. Every hour in the field requires 6 hours in the lab to clean and identify specimens. I skipped that part.
3. Once you know where to dig, dig enough and you’ll find something. I was absolutely filthy by the end of the day. But it was worth it because I found something cool.
Nice to see you back. As if I haven’ t seen enough derp recently, now I can look forward to a long stay in a windowless room with regular visits from men in white coats. Best possible world!
“a long stay in a windowless room with regular visits from men in white coats”
been there, done that
#metoo. Lucky to emerge from that one relatively whole. I really did miss your… insights, looking forward to more.
this is our song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
I was thinking of this one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nq4J_n6vMYo
One of the NY deejays (Dan Ingram?) used to play th B side of your link on occasion. Which was the A side played backwards.
So I found out it was “National Nude Day” via the twitters.
I should’ve known. It does confirm the maxim: “The people that most want to get naked are the people you least want to see naked.”
Plus, Furries.
I need a drink.
Didn’t CAFE standards wipe out the camerosaurus?
[blows whistle] “Brooksing on the thread, five round (9mm) penalty.”
[Kiff sigh]
Also dug up a big dinosaur bone during my trip out west last month.
They didn’t let you keep it? What a gyp.
They let me keep some bone fragments. The bone I found was about a foot long and probably weighed at least 50 pounds.
There are a lot of dino-lovin’ gals in Thermopolis, WY. Another reason to move there after I get a few years of welding experience.
Thermopolis is a pretty cool place. The kids loved the waterslides and the dinosaur stuff. Unfortunately I killed off any interest they might have in rafting when we went down the river on a cold day. It was about 100 degrees when I made the reservation and then the temperature dropped about 50 degrees in a day. That river is freezing.
Did you shoot the Chick-A-Nout Narrows?
I’d read about it, but it was written by a man, if I may be so bold as to assume his gender.
I don’t think Pat McManus falls into any of the six categories.
The Wind River Canyon is pretty, as is the drive to Thermopolis from Buffalo. At a bar in Buffalo, I saw a funny warning sign about a “dangerous” path. Something like:
***
WARNING:
UNPAVED PATH
UNEVEN GROUND
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THE ELDERY OR DISABLED
WATCH OUT FOR ROCKS AND OTHER TRIPPING HAZARDS
ENTER AT OWN RISK
***
So yeah, it was just a flat gravel path about 50 feet long that led to a nice little garden.
The first time in Wyoming I saw someone wearing a mask, I thought I was hallucinating.
Regarding so-called man books….
I read something called 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die. It was funny to see how many famous novels boil down to love triangles and/or adultery.
In comedy, it seems famous male comedians usually have about equal numbers of male and female fans, but famous female comedians have mostly female fans.
Derpy!
Hail to The King, baby.
You could fudge the numbers in their favor by including the people laughing at them.
/snark
Maria Bamford is funny. And f-ed in the head.
I really like that youtube (?) series she did several years ago where she was living in her mother’s attic (?) or something, and just playing several different characters in a bizarre version of her own life. It was nuked for some reason but someone had saved the episodes and uploaded them to their own account.
Bamford might be on the spectrum NTTAWWT which creates an artsy fog about her
and in her day she did a TideMom(TM) job rocking the mini skirt
Tig Notaro is definitely on the spectrum, but the thing is she’s proved more sane, reasonable, and worldly than any of the normies in her life
which, as a fellow native Mississippian, I can assure you doesn’t mean much of anything
I need to be rested up for much of either
oh, and the chick in my avatar is from ChicagoLand
and gets it right a good 67% of the time
“Migrants from Mexico: NO DEPORTATION AND FREE HEALTHCARE
Refugees from Cuba and Haiti: REJECTION & RESETTLED OUT OF US”
https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/1415294327408926724
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1415262028042842118?s=20
Now do the Sonoran desert, asshole.
There’s hypocrisy on both sides of this issue.
Well, yes, but people fleeing a Communist regime pretty much qualify for asylum by definition.
Fleeing a communist nation to come live in a commie hellhole like California or Illinois qualifies them for an insane asylum.
Well, there it is. That’s their angle. If only the regime was more progressive. That’s the problem.
Bullshit. Jack London was a white guy and Call of the Wild was about a dog*. You’re thesis is now invalid.
*I never read Call of the Wild
Wolf-dog, wasn’t it?
*I may have read it a very long time ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I thought it was a St. Bernard. I read it a long time ago as well.
It was a Yorkie! And it had to go uphill, both ways mind you, just to look at a school!
I love going uphill both ways. Leg day, all the way! Shultzie?
Correct. I was confusing this with White Fang (actual fictional wolf-dog). Been a long time since High School.
I find it interesting that Little Miss Literature Expert’s list does not contain any examples of the 7 basic plots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
What about “Man leaves town” and “Man comes to town” ?
Which one is Childhood’s End? Stranger In A Strange Land?
Derp: If you are not certified, get certified to dive.
Go to north central Florida. Do a drift dive down the Santa Fe river. Check out the deep parts of the river. They are loaded with fossils of large mammals.
One of my brother’s friends found an 18″ dagger carved from a mammoth’s tusk. I might have found a mastodon tooth and a bushel basket of bones. Also, a bucket full of shark’s teeth.
Most of the rivers in the panhandle and the big bite are about the same. Well worth the money and time for a vacation.
I got my open water cert in 2007 and haven’t dived since. I thought about being an engineer-diver in the Army (yes, the Army trains divers too, go figure).
Fun fact: mastodon means boob-tooth in Greek. The naming paleontologist thought their teeth looked like boobs.
I visited the Mammoth Site in South Dakota during my trip. It has dozens of intact skeletons. It was a deep water hole with steep sides. When the mammoths went in to swim, they couldn’t climb out. So kind of like what happened at the La Brea tar pits.
Also, watch out for alligators.
I had an alligator encounter this spring. It happened around 2 AM some distance past a large sign that said “WARNING: ALLIGATORS”. Fun fact: despite being cold-blooded, gators are most active at night. Also, if they charge out of the water at you, you can scare them away by yelling at them.
They also slap the water with their tails when angry.
https://freedomphone.com/
There needs to be way more information on that site.
Apparently “choking the chicken” is not always a euphemism…
https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/man-hospitalized-after-choking-penis-nearly-to-death/
Higher intelligence comes with some caveats.
What about “Man leaves town” and “Man comes to town” ?
“Gunfighter tries to escape his past, and fails.”
Nice tie in…
Off topic, but I got to wondering if Neo-Nazi Haiku exists and if so, is there a market for it:
My life was perfect
But it quickly went to Hell
God damn fucking Jews
Ow. Shits, that’s terrible.
I got to wondering if Neo-Nazi Haiku exists
It does now.
is there a market for it
No.
Have you run that by Hunter Biden?
There is no market for Hunter Biden anything. Art, expertise, Neo-Nazi haiku, you name it.
We are talking the guy with a book deal and peddling his art for rather substantial sums, right? Son of the president, former boardmember of a company where he spoke not one word of the local language or knew squat about their business?
Nobody’s paying for a book or art, juris. They are paying for something else, something not produced by Hunter Biden.
I spoke a little too broadly. There is a market for Hunter’s services as a messenger boy.
Access is what they are paying for. Not anything he creating/producing/writing/etc. At least how I see it.
There’s good on both sides
Tooth to tattoo ratio
Kept me off their list
Don gets it.
So you are monitoring private communications to intercede with this messaging?
That’s a bold strategy Cotton.
Well, social media is already doing this. Their “engagement” will probably be to write Facebook and Twitter some phat checks to subsidize it.
Text messages? I think they just admitted out loud that yes, all your text messages are belong to us.
I’m truly interested to see where that is going to go. Interceding in private communications is a fairly bright line.
Bright line to you or me or others here. It is not to our overlords that do it in the name of ‘safety’ or ‘health’.
When your private text messages show up on someone else’s phone with an attached link to a COVID-19 information website, I think a lot more people are going to take notice. It’s one thing to wonder if they’re spying on your private communications, it’s another to get hard proof they’re actually doing it.
It’s interesting that they don’t provide any examples of these nefarious texts, but I guess they have to curate what we are allowed to see in order to save Our Democracy. It’s Science.
That is fine. It pushes more everyday users into using apps that encrypt those messages. Of course that is assumption that Government isn’t playing man-in-the-middle with the keys to those encryptions.
The contents of the messages don’t really matter anyway. Just create a graph tracking the social interactions of everybody everywhere (hi NSA), wait for one person to publicly slip up and expose their bad think and then query the system for their 50 closest friends. Scan their public messages for sympathy to the bad think and add them to the list. Rinse and repeat.
Sorry, but government contractors are damn close enough. Nice try, you lying weasel.
If the data is so persuasive, why the door-to-door pressure campaign. Perhaps that data isn’t persuasive, because its the wrong data. The data that matters is not “how many deaths are unvaccinated people”, its “what are my odds of dying if I’m not vaccinated.”
Good.
See my link just below. This line “Those who are door knocking are individuals like pastors or grassroots organizers, not government bureaucrats. And they are not delivering vaccines, but spreading the word on where and how to get vaccinated, and why it’s important to do so. ” is an absolute lie.
“and text messages.”
LIke to see them sneak this one past the Constitution.
The Constitution is long dead, bro. Its trotted out on occasion, but only when useful to Our Masters. Most of our federal government, and a goodly chunk of its laws, are facially unconstitutional. Yet here we are.
The real fun begins when the hold outs that believe the Constitution will keep our government in check realize that exact point.
All references to here we are, etc. automatically invoke this in my head.
Perfect
neato:
Russian railgun – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycRDMYaWgAA
So as predicted, it isn’t education and outreach, it is sending shots to doors of the unwashed.
The Mecklenburg County Health Department is taking it a step further with the “doses to doors” program. Public health staff will go along, ready to give shots on demand if someone wants one.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/mecklenburg-county-launches-new-doses-to-doors-program/275-09fab5dd-5441-4fef-b19d-f0a697acfb7e
I really don’t have much problem with this if they’re polite and just offer.
I think it’s amusing they’re trying to convince people to take this amazingly effctive vaxcine from behind masks.
It’s pathetic.
I take it as a pissing on my leg and telling me it is raining situation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aaronsmith/2021/07/14/ammo-inc-builds-factory-to-feed-americas-insatiable-demand/?sh=617fcaa6789e
I like to say that lead is the other precious metal.
I didn’t get pick to stay on to be in the jury. 🙁 Sad now.
Awwwwww.
That’s what you get for saying “Jury nullification is totes a thing!”
I may or may not have answered a question with that answer on a questionnaire.
So being only partially focused on the goings on here, has there been any discussion of Darryl Cooper?
Cancel him..He is speaking rationally and logically and cannot be trusted. He needs to pine for one side or the other. He is a hack! He is a liar!
Good read from someone thrust into a light he probably did not want.
Outside of here, on a true “Man on the Street” discussion, I bet this is the norm:
Saw this the other day. Tom Woods posted the entire thing.
I like his take – whatever conspiracies may or may not exist, the “official” narratives do not withstand even mild scrutiny, and the people (politicos, media) pushing these narratives are not to be trusted. Turns out deplorables may be smarter than the condescending sheep who swallow the utter bullshit coming from the elites without question.
That’s the most approachable explanation of the general feeling on the not-paid-by-National-Review-to-be-a-regime-mouthpiece right currently that I’ve ever seen.
Thank you for posting that. Most excellent. Rise above the effort to divide and conquer. Call out the real enemy.
I posted the thread, then that article.
If anyone is interested, I will host a Wednesday Zoom tonight starting at 8pm Eastern.
Huzzah!
Excellent- since SP went off to NY, Wednesdays have been quieter than usual.
But I was told that there is no way possible that this was the reason…
https://www.axios.com/high-unemployment-insurance-people-reject-jobs-9e426791-65b6-453b-9803-81aa3d0ca7e7.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpWUTCAR4I
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https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/aXhS0yVeRcGY8VhWcyVOuw.oj25v9LhjBUgwCnBGks5Dj
My ghost pepper plants are loving the heat. Hopefully I’ll be seeing peppers soon.
nice!
Nice! My pepper plant is growing and such so hopefully I get something out of it. The jalapeno isn’t happy, but the serrano is.
So far out here in Vegas I have only been able to do scallions, herbs and garlic with repeated efficiency. Though we are getting a good crop of lemons this year and the once thought dying lime tree is displaying new growth and life.
Oh also my corn was knee-high by 4th of July and by those standards it is going good.
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Lush ???️
It is the little things on this site that make me smile. Your emoticons are one of them.
Spicy
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/COjFi-jjQPSzg_zdE0UKuA.rLVUYED7A6p8UAy5MQo0Jb
The other super hots stopped being bitchy and got with the progrsm, but they’re not up to flowering yet. We should have started them sooner.
Okay. Either my joists are running perpendicular to the house, which would be utterly odd or I have to consign that my tools are not working as intended. Even where they should be, I seem to not be able to find them. Such as following where the garage door is anchored.
I need to find my magnet to maybe find a line of screws underneath. I do not want to crawl in the attic to visually check.
My experience has been stud finders suck. Get the tape, measure 16 OC from a wall and tap a small finish nail in until you find the fucking thing. If you are looking for ceiling stuff in a house with trusses look in the attic. Garage door installers hang all kinds of shit on trusses to span where they need to hang shit from.
stud finders suck
Madonna haz a sad.
Yeah it always results to a hammer and a nail it seems.
It does, and trusses can’t be figured out until you see which way they ran them by looking in the attic. Always shortest span, but hip roofs, and many other scales of weirdness fuck it all up.
I have found 16/24″ spans and some 5″ spans for some reason. Same for my walls a while back. Seriously think because we were the last houses to be built in the area at the time they just dumped all the wood and nails they could into ours.
I found about 45 nails just hammered into one of the supports at one point.
I would have agreed whole heartedly with that statement until I bought the Franklin Sensors FS710PROProSensor 710+ Professional Stud Finder with Built-in Bubble Level & Ruler,Yellow, fucking thing actually works. Only stud finder I’ve ever owned that I would recommend.
It looks like I am going in the crawl space to at least see their direction. Fuck it, I’m a FedGov and swimming in pools of gold, I will pay someone else.
I can second the Franklin. Like Hype said, only studfinder that actually works.
The M210 Franklin is sold by Lee Valley Tools, which is usually all the recommendation I need. Those folks know their stuff. It appears that the LEDs are more tightly-spaced on the 210, allowing for slightly greater accuracy.
Time to go shopping!
I couldn’t find a studfinder that worked, until I got a simple magnetic one (it triggers on the drywall screws). Works a treat.
Its one of these.
***SIGH!!!*** Just got home and found a letter from the Dayton Dragons, our local minor league baseball team (Reds affiliate, natch) asking me to go to this website and type in my name & address to have a letter sent to my Congresscritters, urging them to co-sponsor the Minor League Baseball Relief Act.
Dragons, I love you guys, but no, I’m not going to buttonhole any politicians and ask them to bail you out with taxpayers’ money. I spend plenty of money to support you of my own free will, thankyouverymuch.
Reply with “if you only knew how to run a business, you would have survived being forced to shutdown. It is obvious that your business model is terrible.” /actual argument I heard as I am sure you have all too.
The thing is, they DID survive – they’ve been phenomenally successful for twenty years, and as far as I can tell, they’ll survive the negative effects of having last year’s entire season cancelled, even if it takes a few years to get back in the black. (We took the option of allowing all of what we’d paid for our 2020 season tickets carry over to this year’s tickets.) If anything, other less successful teams in our league may well be struggling, but that’s on their fans to either help them out or let them fold (or move.)
Maybe I’m getting a little soft in my old age, but while I don’t think they should get a cent in government money, I do understand why they might think the government that forced them to shut down might owe them something.
Tell them to talk to their big league overlords about caving to propaganda campaigns from leftist grifters. Lots of former fans don’t care whether they live or die at this point. I didn’t even know the All Star game was happening till I heard it on the radio.
The Cuban doods stopping traffic pissed me off as much as BLM doing it. Fuck off, wave a flag on the side of the road. Buttttt……….
Re “Desantis’ law” and he should have said,
Fuck the right off.